"So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well."

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Source : "Mr. Jackson is the Deputy Secretary for Department of Housing and Urban Development". "The Business of Government Hour" interview, www.businessofgovernment.org. May 19, 2003.

Alphonso Jackson

#Running Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Function Quotes

“There is noÂ secret ingredientÂ or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.”
“Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.”
“I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.”
“If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans”
“To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.”
“Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and unaided could have drawn all the music of the biosphere. In effect natural selection operates upon the products of chance and can feed nowhere else; but it operates in a domain of very demanding conditions, and from this domain chance is barred. It is not to chance but to these conditions that eveloution owes its generally progressive cource, its successive conquests, and the impresssion it gives of a smooth and steady unfolding.”
“So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.”
“If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write about what he knows, and since I know nothing about any subject it scarcely matters where I dabble.”

Source : William T. Vollmann (1994). “Butterfly Stories: A Novel”, p.3, Grove Press

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